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accepting the offer of $50 from Harold
Bolger for the old Walton Library and the
other a resolution to request a copy of the
sales used for the 1981 Equalization factor
This year the township's equalization factor
is 5.17 compared to 5.13 last year. Final
reading was given to a by-law on the
Johnston-Ellison drain.
PROBATION
In another by-law, Lloyd Michie who
has been on a six month probationary period
was officially appointed road superintendent
and a by-law on the Murray-Lamb drain was
passed since land owners in Hullett had
petitioned the Township of Hullett for a
clean-out and some of the land in Morris
Township would be affected.
Council received a letter from the Ministry
of Natural Resources regarding the new Pits
and Quarries Control Act. Most of what the
letter said had been discussed at a previous
meeting with Art Carr of the Ministry but it
also indicated that information workshops
will be held on the new act. The information
workshop for Morris is to be held in the
maintenance building of the Hullett Wildlife
Area on. October 21 at 7 pan.
Following that the clerk read a letter from
Maitland Engineering services of Wingham
CAUGHT IN THE ACT? — Although she may look like she's stealing
apples, Lori Belanger of Wingham was just standing up after stooping
over to pick some off the ground when she and her family were at
Mait-Side orchards near Brussels on the weekend: , (Photo by Ranney)
also in regard to the new Pits and Quarries.
Act. The letter said that since the application
for licencing of a gravel pit must be made to
the Ministry, of Natural kesources and .
accompanied by a site plan, that the
engineering company would be willing to
undertake any such site plan developments.
Morris also received a provisional certifi-
cate of approval for their waste disposal site,
subject to certain conditions,
Morris had no comments on an application
for minor exception to the tree act by-law by
Bruce and Sharon Bromley and similar
applications for Bill Shortreed and Ron Cook
were approved.
Council had a by-law from Blyth regarding
the changing of a zone to developmental
near the C.P.R. track. Morris was going to
tell them that no objections would be filed.
Morris received a letter from engineers
Dawson and Johnson regarding the wording
.if the plaque on Martin's bridge. It will list
the name of the bridge, the year, the
township, the reeve, deputy-reeve,
councillors, road superintendent, clerk-
treasurer, the contractor and the engineers.
An invitation was received from the
Bluevale Women's Institute inviting council
to attend and bring greetings to the next
meeting of the Huron County Historical
Society.
BY PAT LYNCH
CROPS SPECIALIST
One day this past month,. I
mentioned to my wife, Sally,
."Yotkshould plan youi day if
you want to get the most of it.
don't just let it happen".
She answered something a-
bout that being a good idea -•
tell it to our 2 young boys.
Sometimes when I talk to. you
, about your cropping program
I have the idea that your
cropping strategy just hap-
pens - it's not well planned or
recorded. Now I don't want
to be critical because we both
know you grow good crops.
In fact, Huron and Perth
have very enviable crop yield
records compared to the rest,
of the Province. Still, we are`
reaching a state of techno-
logy where that little corn
hybrid booklet in your pocket
is not good enough. Look at
your sow and milk, records.-
Where do you keep them?
Not in the corn hybrid book.
And certainly not in your
head. All the information is
recorded so that you can plan
ahead. The same is needed
for crops. All that I am
Asking is that you keep the
same amount of records per
dollar invested in crops as
you keep per dollar invested
in livestock. Somebody con-
vinced you to keep good
records on your liveStock -
they said it would make you
money. You started and they
do make you money. Crop
records will, make you money
too.
ROOTWORM CONTROL
STRATEGY
The reason that I mention
good records is connected
'with planning rootworm con:
trol. I can predict now that
rootworm will be a serious
insect problem next year. It
may cost us over $20 million
in lost corn" yields and
insecticide cost. You have to
'`start to plan now on how to
reduce your loss to this
insect. To reduce damage,
rotate crops or use insecti-
cides on continuous corn. But
these insecticides break
down between application
time and when they are
needed. Therefore, to com-
bat this, you can plant your
first corn on land that didn't
have corn last year. There
will be no rootworm there.
Plant you last corn on field
that have the worst rootworm
problem this year. This en-
sures more active insecticide
available when the eggs
hatch.
FURADAN AFFECTS
I have just received some
correspondence from Bernie
Smith of CDA from Harrow.
His research indicates that
.corn treated with Furadan
one year has very high egg
populations the next year.
Higher populations than un-
treated corn. Higher popula-
tions than corn treated with
some of the other insecticies.
He has no idea of the
implications of this finding.
This treatment may be at-
tracting adults to these fields
It may be inducing adults in
that field to lay more eggs.
Or it may be controlling
natural predators of the
rootworm. This fact does not
change Furadan's ability to
control rootworm larvae. We
need more research to find
out which of these is the
answer.
Suppose it it the first.
Furadan attracts adults to
corn fields. This would mean
if you treated a 'field the last
year it was in corn with
'Furadan, you could attract
adults to that field. Then you
effectively reduce the root-
worm numbers on your farm.
Because next year you
wouldn't plant dorn prt that
field. Those eggs would
hatch and the larvae would
die without, corn. As I
mentioned, this is all specul-
ative and needs more re-
search. However, it gives
you an idea of the type of
things you can plan with I
goad crop records. This type
of approach can't just hap-
pen.
' Crop planning would also
help to control bindweed. If
you planted the field that had
'the worst bindweed last, you
have a better chance of
controlling bindweed. Bind-
weed seems to come into
'flower within the same week
whether corn is planted May
1st or May 20th. However,
corn planted May 20th will
probably silk 10 to 14 days
after corn planted May 1st.
By planning your planting,
you can effectively increase
the number of days that you
can spray bindweed in any
one field.
An error was made in a
story last week about the
Brussels Lions Club giving a
donation to the Walton Area
Sports Club. The story said
that the Lions presented a
cheque for $500. but the
actual amount was $1500.
Correction
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